Chapman Campground and Group
1Heads up1 fire 12 mi away
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:52 UTC
- A night
- $30When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 84In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Situated above the Ruedi Reservoir, Chapman Campground sits at the base of a wide valley adjacent to the Fryingpan River in White River National Forest. Sites are surrounded by lodgepole pine, and several are at the river's edge, offering an ideal setting for visitors seeking recreation and relaxation. Keep reading
Recreation
Flowing through this campground is Fryingpan River, renowned for its fly fishing. Downriver, below the campground and Ruedi Dam, large rainbow, brown, cutthroat and brook trout are plentiful in an area nicknamed the "toilet bowl." Here, the fish feed on mysis shrimp, a small freshwater shrimp stocked in the lake. The stretch of river from the dam down to the confluence of Fryingpan and the Roaring Fork River has been designated as Gold Medal Waters by the Colorado Wildlife Commission. Special regulations in this area include fishing only with artificial flies and lures, and releasing all trout except brown trout, with a limit of 2 fish over 14 inches. Chapman Reservoir is also an option for anglers wanting to cast lines in at its shore. Motorized watercraft is prohibited on Chapman Reservoir. A horseshoe pit and volleyball court encourage game playing. A nature trail can be accessed from the site.
Facilities
Chapman Campground has 84 standard sites suitable for tents, trailers, and RVs. The campground is equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water located in Loops F, G & H. Electrical hook-ups are not available. Trash and recycling collection is provided. Chapman Group Site has one site available for reservation. There is no electric hook-up but potable water is available withing the campground at the fill station spigots. The Group Site facilities include: hardened parking for campers and passenger vehicles along the access road into the site. The site has 6 regular fire rings and 1 group size rock fire ring, 1 pedestal grill, 5 food lockers, 7 picnic tables, and a horseshoe pit. Vehicles must stay on the main road or pull outs. Vehicles are not allowed to travel into the woods. All camping in the woods must be hand carried.
Natural Features
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 2.3 million acre White River National Forest is a place of serenity and adventure, boasting 8 wilderness areas, 4 defined seasons, and 10 peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. Wildlife in the area abounds. Bighorn sheep navigate rocky ridges and bull elk bugle at dusk. Scenic rivers sustain populations of cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout. Alpine regions provide habitat for pika and ptarmigan. These species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams, and diverse forests to live. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Dogs must be always on a leash and with owner at all times. Campers must occupy the site the first night at a campsite. This prevents booking the site for Fri-Sun and showing up on Saturday. Campers may leave the site for 24 hours and must occupy the site otherwise. This allows a camper to say go for an overnight backpack trip in the woods for one night and come back to their campsite the next day.
Gate entering the group site must ALWAYS remain closed. Tell all your guests and vendors-this is very important!
All garbage shall be removed from the site and deposited in the appropriate receptacle by check out time.
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Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00am. It is imperative that you are clear from the site at 11:00am on your check out day so the host can come prepare the site for the next event. Please don't be the group that makes the incoming group have to wait. Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.WhiteRiver.Sopris@AmericanLL.com
Off Highway Vehicle Use is NOT allowed at the group or other campground sites.
All food, beverage and trash must be always attended by an adult, this requires someone within 100 feet of the attractants. Otherwise, all attractants shall be stored in a locked vehicle/camper or food lockers. Campers must adhere to the food storage rule as well and store all attractants in a locked vehicle unless attending the food, garbage, etc.
Tent camping is allowed inside the designated area.
RV's and campers must be parked on the hardened gravel road surface.
RV's and campers cannot hook up to water via the spigots, the spigot is for self-fill jugs only located outside of the group area adjacent to the main kiosk fee station.
Fires are restricted to the metal fire rings or pedestal grill, no other open burning is allowed.
Check with the Ranger District or American Land & Leisure prior to your event to investigate fire restrictions. In event of fire restrictions, you may only be able to use propane cooking facilities.
Quite hours are from 10pm to 6am, please respect other visitors to the forest and the neighboring campground. Sounds travel in the mountains, don't be that rowdy party that disturbs others.
VENDOR AND EVENT REQUIREMENTS Renters of these sites may hire vendors to support their use such as catering, flowers, music, ceremony efficient, photography, chair rental, etc. These vendors are not required to obtain a separate permit to provide these services. However, the party who rented Windy Point via Recreation.gov is responsible for all actions and/or damage taken by the vendors. The vendor must follow all site rules. All vendors shall adhere to check-in/out times for set up and especially retrieval of their equipment. In event the vendor does not retrieve their equipment, the renter is responsible to remove the equipment by noon on checkout day.
Vendor Requirements -Commercial Filming and Still Photography: purpose is for a pre-paid film/photography service to document the event only. The products are only available to the client who reserved the group site and their guests. No re-sale is allowed. -Food and Drink Catering: purpose is for a prep-paid food/beverage service provided by the client who booked the group site for the sole service to their guests of the event. No other service shall be offered to other recreation visitors. -Music: Music shall be 80 decibels or less as to not disturb other forest users. Music and the overall event shall adhere to the posted quite hours of 10pm to 6am, the event must shut down between those hours. -Chair and Seating: Additional pre-paid seating may be provided by the client who booked the event site. All seating shall be placed on hardened surfaces. Even numbers shall meet posted site limitations. -Event Tents: Appropriately sized tents shall only be placed on/over gravel, hardened areas such as the parking area, concrete pad, or gravel gathering area at Forest Loop. No tents allowed on grass, in the woods etc. -Flowers and other decorations: A pre-paid vendor hired by the client who booked the group site is allowable. All decorations shall be removed immediately post event and not be allowed to bow away or be strewn about the site. Decorations shall bot be affixed to natural features such as trees, rocks, or other vegetation. -Release or throwing of animals, vegetation, or any other materials: Ariel release of any/all items such as but not limited to doves, other birds, butterflies, balloons, rice, petals, flowers, fireworks, reveal features, or any other item is prohibited. These users are not considered nominal and are prohibited. This is a natural environment, and all celebratory its shall reflect the setting.
Event use is NOT allowed on Chapman Lake, all event activities must occur within the group site. All vehicles shall stay on the road system, no vehicles are allowed to drive into the event space!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 84 · 8 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables, campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water located in Loops F, G & H.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water located in Loops F, G & H. Electrical hook-ups are…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 270th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 26 km away
- Past peak
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:52 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
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What you actually pay
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Chapman Campground and Group closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 2
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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recreation.gov availability, read 15:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
84 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 76 mapped sitesAll 84 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 84 of the 84 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 76 of the 84 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 440 ft | 2,965 ft | $30 |
| A | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 411 ft | 2,908 ft | $30 |
| A | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 370 ft | 2,790 ft | $30 |
| A | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 20 ft | 345 ft | 2,765 ft | $30 |
| A | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 20 ft | 327 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,750 ft | $30 |
| A | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 325 ft | 2,744 ft | $30 |
| B | 007 | type not stated | 30 ft | 134 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,582 ft | ||
| B | 008 | type not stated | 30 ft | 97 ft | 2,515 ft | ||
| B | 009 | type not stated | 30 ft | 65 ft | 2,453 ft | ||
| C | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 132 ft | 141 ft | 2,728 ft | $30 |
| C | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 126 ft | 125 ft | 2,796 ft | $30 |
| C | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 22 ft | 114 ft | 2,883 ft | $30 |
| C | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 22 ft | 105 ft | 2,895 ft | $30 |
| C | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 181 ft | 2,919 ft | $30 |
| CHAP | 1 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1108 ft | 177 ft | 1,729 ft | $260 |
| D | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 21 ft | 89 ftSellar Creek | 2,349 ft | $30 |
| D | 016 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 21 ft | 107 ftSellar Creek | 2,348 ft | $30 |
| D | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 128 ft | 2,385 ft | $30 |
| D | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 129 ft | 2,348 ft | $30 |
| D | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 127 ft | 2,305 ft | $30 |
| D | 020 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 117 ft | 2,254 ft | $30 |
| D | 021 | type not stated | 45 ft | 142 ft | 2,170 ft | ||
| D | 022 | type not stated | 35 ft | 178 ft | 2,143 ft | ||
| E | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 265 ft | 2,087 ft | $30 |
| E | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 267 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,086 ft | $30 |
| E | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 268 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,076 ft | $30 |
| E | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 225 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,057 ft | $30 |
| E | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 193 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,032 ft | $30 |
| E | 028 | type not stated | 30 ft | 160 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,011 ft | ||
| E | 029 | type not stated | 30 ft | 116 ftChapman Reservoir | 2,000 ft | ||
| E | 030 | type not stated | 30 ft | 102 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,976 ft | ||
| E | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 254 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,890 ft | $30 |
| E | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 323 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,844 ft | $30 |
| E | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 21 ft | 480 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,731 ft | $30 |
| E | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 21 ft | 495 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,730 ft | $30 |
| E | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 584 ftChapman Reservoir | 1,683 ft | $30 |
| E | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 500 ft | 1,683 ft | $30 |
| E | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 476 ft | 1,762 ft | $30 |
| E | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 20 ft | 454 ft | 1,882 ft | $30 |
| E | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 20 ft | 474 ft | 1,862 ft | $30 |
| E | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 429 ft | 1,909 ft | $30 |
| E | 041 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 440 ft | 1,908 ft | $30 |
| F | 042 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 138 ft | 502 ft | 837 ft | $30 |
| F | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 18 ft | 540 ft | 708 ft | $30 |
| F | 044 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 18 ft | 557 ft | 701 ft | $30 |
| F | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 460 ft | 570 ft | $30 |
| F | 046 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 386 ft | 578 ft | $30 |
| F | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 312 ft | 640 ft | $30 |
| F | 048 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 295 ft | 680 ft | $30 |
| F | 049 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 204 ft | 753 ft | $30 |
| F | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 174 ft | 792 ft | $30 |
| F | 051 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 78 ft | 92 ft | 891 ft | $30 |
| F | 052 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 78 ft | 118 ft | 958 ft | $30 |
| F | 053 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 192 ft | 994 ft | $30 |
| F | 054 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 31 ft | 249 ft | 953 ft | $30 |
| F | 055 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 28 ft | 280 ft | 952 ft | $30 |
| F | 056 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 28 ft | 303 ft | 937 ft | $30 |
| G | 057 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 120 ft | 708 ft | 441 ft | $30 |
| G | 058 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 120 ft | 612 ft | 352 ft | $30 |
| G | 059 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 141 ft | 474 ft | 238 ft | $30 |
| G | 060 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 67 ft | 335 ft | 111 ft | $30 |
| G | 061 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 43 ft | 154 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| G | 062 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 43 ft | 115 ft | 216 ft | $30 |
| G | 063 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 86 ft | 288 ft | $30 |
| G | 064 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 35 ft | 80 ft | 319 ft | $30 |
| G | 065 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 183 ft | 336 ft | $30 |
| G | 066 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 66 ft | 162 ft | 374 ft | $30 |
| G | 067 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 155 ft | 206 ft | 435 ft | $30 |
| G | 068 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 155 ft | 308 ft | 281 ft | $30 |
| G | 069 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 148 ft | 224 ft | 93 ft | $30 |
| G | 070 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 67 ft | 320 ft | 58 ft | $30 |
| H | 071 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 510 ft | 376 ft | $30 |
| H | 072 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 486 ft | 378 ft | $30 |
| H | 073 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 126 ft | 371 ft | 236 ft | $30 |
| H | 074 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 94 ft | 248 ft | 123 ft | $30 |
| H | 075 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 169 ft | 49 ft | $30 |
| H | 076 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 105 ft | 83 ft | $30 |
| H | 077 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 68 ft | 88 ft | 143 ft | $30 |
| H | 078 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 102 ft | 211 ft | $30 |
| H | 079 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 92 ft | 260 ft | $30 |
| H | 080 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 128 ft | 138 ft | 311 ft | $30 |
| H | 081 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 80 ft | 191 ft | 376 ft | $30 |
| H | 082 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 27 ft | 245 ft | 425 ft | $30 |
| H | 083 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 27 ft | 272 ft | 420 ft | $30 |
25 of 84 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dearhamer CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 6.7 mi
Little Mattie CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 11 mi
Ruedi Marina CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 11 mi
Little Maud CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 11 mi
Mollie B_white RiverWhite River National Forest · 11 miTake I-70 west of Denver to Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Take exit 116 (Highway 82) south to Basalt. At Basalt, take Frying Pan Road. Go 29 miles to Chapman Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Norrie, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Chapman Campground and Group is in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Jeff Hurd (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →